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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-20, Page 2Flourless Cake This recipe for flourless cake is something extra special, and you will see from the directions that, it is a very old and trees- ured recipe. I can remember when my grandmother used nothing less than a silver fora t0 beat the whites of eggs for her special cakes. I don't really think she would approve of elec- tric mixers! Walnut Flourless Cake 7 eggs separated 1 level teaspoon cream tartar 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 quart English walnuts grouted fine Beat egg yolks until pale lem- on yellow and thick. In 'large Brock whip whites with a wire whisk — or at very low speed — until foamy, then add the cream c. tartar with a sprinkle of salt and continue beating until stiff (and _they will not fall when crock is turned upside down). Now fold in the yolks and sifted sugar. Run the walnut meats through the finest blade of your food chopper and add last to the mixture, folding carefully. Line layer cake pans with oiled paper and pour mixture into them. Bake in a slow oven about CHAOS—One of history's great- est earthquakes took place in the Gobi -Altai Mountain area of Outer Mongolia last December 4, reports Izvestia, official So- viet's publication. The quake, compared with "prehistoric con- vulsions" of the earth, is said to have masted mountains, cre- ated new valleys and diverted rivers. An expedition to the urea reports one gigantic crev- ice 65 feet wide and 155 miles rung: the same way angel cake is baked. The cake should rise to entire, height before any part of the surface browns. When ready to serve, put together with sweet-" ened, well -flavored w h i p p ed cream; ;place on your silver platter or chop plate, and serve with a flourish, from the table. The cake may be baked early in the day but do not put to- gether until serving time. A gourmet's delight!—by Mary E. Wall in The Christian Science Monitor. Worked Too Hard John Marshall, .a 35 -year-old Gernian immigrant, tried his best 'making piston rings in a British engineering plant. His best, it turned out, was too good. Last month, Marshall, was scorn- ed by his workmates, jobless, and branded for life as "the man who worked too hard." All the workers at the Shef- field plant of Lockwood and Carlisle, Ltd., had agreed among themselves to limit their piece- work output to 70 cents' worth per hour —• all, that -is, except Marshall. The immigrant turned out as many pistons as he could, and the weekly paycheck he took home to his wife and daughter was regularly about $1 more than that of the other workers. That started the trouble. Summoned before a kangaroo court run by the engineering union's Communist -dominated lo- cal branch, Marshall was found guilty of overwork. The branch ordered him to give his "excess" earnings to its sick fund. He re- fused; the union booted him out. That meant dismissal from the closed -shop factory. Some ' 700,000 British mine- workers, whose man-hour pro- duction has been slipping, last week demanded a reduction in surface workers' 421 -hour work week, already one of the shortest in Europe. In hard -worker John Marshall's native German y, which has been capturing many British markets, West German Economics -Minister Ludwig Er- hard told labor unions they should up their average 45 -hour week by another hour. —From NEWSWEEK. BOTTLE PARTY There was nothing wrdng with the nerves of the >gatig which raided a grocer's shop•in Copenhagen, stole a numbers of bottles of wine and, after drain- ing them, later returned to 'the shop, requesting payment of the deposit money on the bottles! SIR WINSTON'S WORK —. Reproduced below are two of a col- lection of 35 paintings by Sir Winston Churchill which will be shown to American audiences for the first time in a tour of art museums during 1958. Churchill is not a professional artist and has never sold any of his paintings, but in the opinion of most art authorities and laymen who have viewed his work, he is a versatile and extraordinarily skilled amateur. Churchill be- gan to paint as a diversion in 1915 after he was forced to relinquish his post as First Lord of the Admirality following British failure to seal off the Black Sea in their ill-starred Dardanelles campaign. From 1916 through 1957, Churchill paint- ed some 300 canvases, most of which ho has kept.. His paint- ings include landscapes and seascapes painted on three con- tinents, a number of still lifes, and one work entitled "Bottle - scope," and arrangement of wine and liqueur bottles. glasses and what appear to be cigar boxes. "Plug Street," one of Shurchill's earliest, was done in 1916. "Bottlescape," a still life painted by, Sir Winston in 1932 CHAMPAGNE FOR AUGUST —. A real ham, "August" the hog is one big piggie determined not to go to market in Munich, Germany. Urged by trainer Hans Hepertys, August stands on his hind legs to beg. Performing the trick earns the 350 -pound porker a glass of champagne and stays the most dreaded trick of all: suddenly turning into bacon and pork chops. JfA8LE TALKS eiane And*fews. ONION -POTATO SOUP You might like to dust the top of the soup with paprika or minced parsley the bit of color is attractive against the white. Yield — 3 or 4 servings. 1 can (approx. 10 ounces) consomme 3/ cup mashed potatoes 2 teaspoons grated onion s/ cup milk I/ cup cream Salt and pepper BIend consomme into mashed potatoes. Add -onion. Cover and simmer S minutes, Press through a fine sieve; add milk and cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Either chill or bring just to the' scalding point. Serve in cups with a sprinkle of chopped parsley or paprika: * e e. MUFFINS 2 cups once -sifted pastry flour or 1 2/3 cups once - sifted all-purpose flour 3%/a teaspoons baking powder s/z teaspoon salt 34 cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons chilled ilhortening 1'well-beaten egg 3z cup milk 34 cup mincemeat. Sift pastry or all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together once, then into a bowl. Add shortening and cut It in finely. Combine well -beaten egg, milk and mincemeat. Make a well in dry ingredients, add liquids and mix together Nightly. Two-thirds fill 12 greased muffin pans. Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375 degrees, about 20 minutes. Yield — 1 dozen medium-sized muffins. * * Here are a couple of frosting recipes you might like to try. The first, with its flecks of color throughout is extremely decora- tive as well as delightful. Yield -- sufficient frosting to fill and frost an 8- or 9 -inch round layer cake. 2 egg whites 2/3 cup light corn syrup 2 tablespoons water 3 s teaspoon salt Few drops vanilla 34 cup chopped Brazil nuts 7/ cup finely chopped..red maraschino :cherries s4 cup finely cut raisins or dates. Combine egg whites, corn, syrup, water and salt in top of double boiler., Place oyer boiling water and, beat with a hand rotary beater or electric mixer set at highest speed until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove. from heat and stir in vanilla continue to beat until frosting is of spreading con- sistency, Remove- about Mfr of the frost- ingir g to another bowl; mix in Brazil nuts, cherries and raisins or dates and use as a filling be- tween the layers. Use the remaining larger quantity of frosting to frost top and sides of cake. Garnish cake with Brazil nut slices and red maraschino cher- ries. u BUTTERSCOTCH FROSTING An excellent -way to top a chocolate, coffee, caramel, golden or yellow cake. .. Yield — Sufficient frosting to frost a 7x11 -inch cake. a/,s cup butter Vs cup lightly packed brown sugar % cup milk 14 teaspoon vanilla I% cups (about) sifted icing sugar. Melt butter in a saucepan; stir in brown sugar. Boil over low direct heat 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in milk and heat, to boiling point. Remove from heat end cool to lukewarm. Add and mix in vanilla. Work in sufficient icing sugar to make a frosting of spreading consistency. . • Spread frosting over cold cake and decorate with Brazil nut curls. Getting Ready To Sail The Ocean Sid Mashford was sitting in the cockpit of Felicity Ann leaf- ing through a list of modifica- tions that Humphrey had made out. "There's a lot of work here," said Sid, "and this is our busi- est time of year. Everyone wants their boats ready and launched for Easter. Are you sure all this is necessary?" I thought I could detect a cer- tain resentment. FA was a yard production; designed by Sid and built by the firm. There are few things a man is more sensitive about than the qualities of his boat. Humphrey had, sent speci- fications, made out by the firm of Lgurent Giles for entirely new rigging — "as the mast is stepped on deck wecannot take any chances," Humphrey had written — and drawings for a reduced. sail plan, which meant taking six feet off the mast and eight inches off the boom. There was'to be a watertight and -self - draining cockpit. A twenty-five gallon water tank fitted under the cockpit. A spray hood for the protection of the helmsman. There were drawings too, for` high steel stanchions, "anything less than thirty inches Is use- less," stated Humphrey empha- tically. These were for lifelines to keep the crew (me) w,thin bounds, and a pulpit to fence' its the stemhead and prevent the crew (me) from plunging head- , Tong over the bows. There . were further drawings for ttvo beau- tiful staysails, twin sails . for running downwind, with appro- priate specifications for the booms to wing them out, and stays to . hank them on, and top- ping lifts to support the booms. They were, I could see, some- what exaggerated requirements for anyone apparently just wanting a splash and a bobble ' in the sound on a sunny Sunday afternoon. "You see," I said at last in desperation, "I want to sail her across the Atlantic."—From "My Ship Is So Small," by Ann Da- vison. HIS ALIBI "Why are you running away?" the bully asked a small, timid- looking man. "I thought' you said you could lick me with one hand tied behind your back." "That's right," came the -reply. ,."I'm just going home to get some string." ORIENTAL - A tiny parasol is lusttheright topper forthis new- swimsuit worn by Marcia Valibus at Miami Beach. It's made of oriental brocade, with handmade lace bedecking the high mandarin collar and side slits. - ATHEROSCLEROSIS — NUMBER ONE HEALTH ENEMY By EUGENE A. STEAD, M.D. Duke University Medical Center Written for NEA Service DURHAM, N.C. (NEA) — The vital organs of the body become sick and die in one of two ways: either the cells making up these organs become injured and die although adequately, supplied `with 'blood, or healthy cells die. because the arteries bringing the blood to them have become clogged. In our society, the second way of dying is most common. Obit- uary writers usuallyrefer only to theimmediate event, perhaps u.heart attack or a stroke. What we are concerned' with here is the condition which sets the stage for tho event. This is ath- erosclerosis' — target of one of the most intensive research ef- forts in the -history of medicine. The problem is similar to that of the plumbing in a house. In: order to keep a good flow of water, we must have a reason- able head of pressure. In the body this head of pressure is supplied by the heart; we record it as blood pressure. If the pressure head is ton high in one's household plumb- ing, we have undue wear on the pipes, which show a tendency to bulge and 'leak at the joints. In man, high blood' pressure, cr hypertension, increases the stress on the blood vessels and tends to wear them ont prematurely. The plumbing in a house will last for a variable . number of years, depending on the kinds of pipes originally installed and on. the properties of the water cir- culating through them. Various types. of materials dissolved or suspended in the water will have an effect on the bore of the pipes, and will be one factor in deter- mining how long the pipes 're- main open. These same variables are pres- ent in the system which circu- lates the blood. The type of blood vessel in our body is a function of heredity. In certain families, blood vessel disease is nearly un- heai'd of until very old age; in others, many die from stopping up of the arteries before the age of 50. The composition of the• of the blood also has an effect on the blood vessel walls. Our comparison with the house plumbing breaks down at this point. Walls of blood vessels and', the fluid circulating in them ,are far more complex. Artery walls are made; up of living tissues and their products. They contain hundreds of dit- ferent substances in certain fix- ed relationships, and are living systems of great complexity in composition, in anatomy and in function. Also complex is the blood, which varies in composi- tion from minute to minute throughout each 24 hours. • When there is a breakdown in any of the series of integrated reactions giving the properties a life to the arterial wall, the end result is an abnormal blood ves- sel. All changes in structure which affect the inner lining of the large and medium-sized blood vessels, producing the pic- ture of atherosclerosis. These changes do not have a single cause. In this article, I shall not at- tempt to explain the many com- plex chemical changes involved as the life chain in the arterial wall is broken. I shall merely note . that it is in this system of multiple variables, acting over a lifetime, that we are trying to pick out things that are im- portant in the development of blood vessel' disease. Over the years, we have con- centrated first on the descriptive phase of blood vessel disease (how it develops and how it can be recognized in life and death), and secondly on the study of the effects on various organs of a decrease in blood supply. These were problems that could'be un- dertaken by practicing physi- cians, who have made large con-' cributions in these areas. But the problems of the chem- istry of living cells, the chemis- try of complex giant molecules, the physics of elastic tubes com- posed' of many substances, the chemistry of the enzymes con- trolling blood clotting, the ef- fects of hormones on the state of the vessel walls and many other factors proved too complex for the practicing physician and his conventional tools of medi- cine. Hence, he has turned to uni- versities and medical schools for the training of young people capable of studying the basic bio• logical, biochemical and bio- physical properties of the blood vessels and of the blood in the complex environment of the body. Its costs money to train these men, to provide space to house their training, and to buy the type of equipment never before freely used in medical schools. Once the training period is • completed, there is a need to supply long-range financial sup- port to keep the investigator in his chosen research career. There are many facets of the problem. Broadly, its solution c1. pends upon the expansion of medical research. You support this type of research when you contribute to the Heart Fund of the American Heart Association and its affiliates. Next: Nutrition and your arteries BLOCKADED CHANNELS: These three cross-sectional views of a human drtery' tell the story if atherosclerosis. Left, a normal blood vessel's smooth lining presents no obstacle to the flow of blood. Center, lesions composed of a fatty -like substance called cholester&I have begun to form in the inner -lining, with the result the artery is partially closed. Right, the closure is almost complete and a clot may stop the flow of oxygenated blood. This is "heart attack'.